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Bill C-11 Estimates Revealed: Internal Government Documents Show No Impact on Net Employment, Admit Streamers Already Invest Millions in “Unofficial Cancon”

Michael Geist

And as for the payments from social media companies that the government insists are so essential that it has fought for years to include user content regulation in the bill? However, from a cultural perspective, the two sectors are not interchangeable, and the loss of Canadian-produced television shows will greatly impact the industry.

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Ready, Fire, Aim: Eleven Thoughts on the CRTC’s Bill C-11 Consultations

Michael Geist

To pick just one of many examples, the Commission is consulting on the meaning of “social media service”: Q5. How should the Commission define “social media service”? What, if any, criteria should be used to assess whether an online undertaking is providing a social media service?

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Too Rusty For Krusty–Nickelodeon v. Rusty Krab Restaurant (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Finally, it points out Viacom is the owner of three valid trademark registrations for the KRUSTY KRAB mark and 400 copyright registrations covering “creative aspects of the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise,” including episodes from the animated television series, movies, drawings, and stylebooks featuring artwork from the franchise.

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The Unrecognizable Bill C-11: The Online Streaming Act Comes to the Heritage Committee

Michael Geist

When Minister Rodriguez introduced this bill, he stated “we listened to concerns around social media and we fixed it.” The bottom line is that user content is treated as a “program” and the CRTC is empowered to create regulations applicable to programs that are uploaded to social media services. While the Section 4.1

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Bankruptcy Trustee Sues Over “Muppet Babies” Reboot

Copyright Lately

Without any ownership interest in the production bible, Scott had no right to assert a copyright infringement claim. As a result, it’s questionable whether Scott had any ability to claim infringement, even if he were able to show an ownership interest in the series bible in the first place. View Fullscreen.

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What Copyright’s “Unclaimable Material” Rules Mean for Hollywood’s Use of AI

Copyright Lately

“The copyright in such [derivative] work is independent of, and does not affect or enlarge the scope, duration, ownership, or subsistence of, any copyright protection in the preexisting material.” Let me know in the comments below or @copyrightlately on whatever social media app you aren’t boycotting this week.

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Generative AI Is Changing How We Do Business and How We Practice Law

IP Tech Blog

Other industries, however, are far from a share and share alike attitude towards AI, and AI has posed challenging questions regarding intellectual property ownership across the creative fields of visual art, music, and writing. One widely covered conflict concerned a moderately convincing track mimicking R&B artists Drake and The Weeknd.